A carrier includes a base and a clear plastic top member connected to the base via a plurality of spaced binding bands with a receiving space formed between them for holding a handheld video device therein, and an arm band extended across and releasably secured to a lower side of the base for binding the carrier around a user's arm. The binding bands are length adjustably connected at a proximal end to peripheral edges of the top member, and are provided on a back side with a hook fastener surface each for releasably securing to loop fastener surfaces provided on the lower side of the base.
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1. A carrier for handheld device, comprising:
a rectangular base plate having an axially extended belt, an upper side, and a lower side, wherein the lower side is divided into a front section, a middle section, and a rear section, a loop fastener surface covers only the front section and the rear section, the middle section includes a hook fastener surface, and the axially extended belt's two ends are fixed to the base plate and cover the hook fastener surface of the middle section to define a space between the belt and the base;
an arm band being a long strip adapted to transversely extend through the space behind the axially extended belt at the lower side of the base; the arm band being provided on an upper side facing toward the lower side of the base with a loop fastener surface at the lower side of the base when the arm band is extended through the space behind the axial belt; the arm band having a first end provided with a hook fastener surface, and a second end provided with a buckle, through which the first end of the arm band may be extended and then bent backward to secure the hook fastener surface thereof to the loop fastener surface on the upper side of the arm band; and
a clear plastic top member being a rectangular sheet member with a first side, a second side, a third side, and a fourth side, wherein the first side is adjacent to the second side and the fourth side, the first side includes a first binding band, the second side provides a second binding band and third binding band, the third side provides a fourth binding band, and the fourth side provides a fifth binding band and a sixth binding band, each of the binding bands being provided on a back side with a hook fastener surface, so that the binding bands may be bent downward to secure the hook fastener surfaces to the loop fastener surfaces on the lower side of the rectangular base plate, and thereby connect the top member to the rectangular base plate with a receiving space defined between the top member and the rectangular base plate for holding a handheld device therein, and the clear plastic top member allows users to touch the handheld device's keys through the clear plastic top member.
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The present invention relates to a carrier for handheld device, and more particularly to carrier that can be bound around a user's arm to hold a handheld video device therein while allowing the user to conveniently watch and operate the handheld video device.
With the nowadays highly developed video technology, there are various kinds of portable handheld video devices commercially available in the market. For example, cellular phones, personal digital assistances (PDAs), MP3 players, and GPS (global positioning system) receivers all are very popular portable electronic video products. To enable easy carry thereof, the portable video products are usually compact to have small volume, low profile, and low weight. Some advanced video products are even provided with a touch-screen interface to reduce or even eliminate operating keys from the video products.
These portable video products are frequently carried by users in a purse, pocket, or protective carrier. U.S. Pat. No. 6,182,878 discloses a carrier for portable cellular phones. The carrier may be pivoted about a waist belt, a suspender strap, or the like, and the cellular phone held therein may be extracted therefrom for use at any time. The carrier disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,182,878 may be differently sized for holding electronic devices other than the cellular phone, such as PDA, GPS receiver, etc.
The conventional protective carrier for cellular phones and other electronic video products is designed simply as a carrying device and does not allow the user to operate or watch the screen of the video product when the same is held in the carrier. For example, a doctor at a patient's bedside would usually hold a PDA with left hand to watch the patient's case history, and therefore has only the right hand available for taking care of the patient. The PDA occupying the doctor's one hand would inevitably form an inconvenience to the doctor.
It is therefore tried by the inventor to develop a carrier for handheld device that not only protectively holds a handheld device therein, but also allows a user to watch a screen or operate keys of the handheld device without the need of extracting the handheld device from the carrier.
A primary object of the present invention is to provide a carrier that can be attached to a user's arm for holding a handheld device therein, so that the user may conveniently watch information shown on a screen of the handheld device without the need of extracting and particularly holding the handheld device with one hand.
To achieve the above and other objects, the carrier for handheld device according to the present invention includes a base and a clear plastic top member connected to the base via a plurality of spaced binding bands with a receiving space formed between them for holding a handheld video device therein, and an arm band extended across and releasably secured to a lower side of the base for binding the carrier around a user's arm. The binding bands are length adjustably connected at a proximal end to peripheral edges of the top member, and are provided on a back side with a hook fastener surface each for releasably securing to loop fastener surfaces provided on the lower side of the base.
The carrier for handheld device according to the present invention may have an access opening formed at any one of four peripheral edges thereof, allowing the user to put or remove the handheld device in or from the carrier easily.
The structure and the technical means adopted by the present invention to achieve the above and other objects can be best understood by referring to the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments and the accompanying drawings, wherein
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The base 10 is a substantially rectangular plate similar to but slightly larger than the handheld device 40 in size. Please refer to
The arm band 20 is a long strip adapted to transversely extend through the space defined between the belt 12 and the lower side of the base 10, and is provided on an upper side facing toward the lower side of the base 10 with a loop fastener surface 21 adapted to firmly secure to the hook fastener surface 13 when the arm band 20 is extended through the space behind the belt 12. The loop fastener surface 21 on the arm band 20 may have a long overall length to allow a user to make necessary adjustment of a length of the arm band 20 after the same has been extended through the belt 12. The arm band 20 has a first end provided with a hook fastener surface 23, and a second end provided with a buckle 22, through which the first end of the arm band 20 may be extended. Having been extended through the buckle 22, the first end of the arm band 20 may be bent backward to attach the hook fastener surface 23 to the loop fastener surface 21, so that the arm band 20 is formed into a loop below the base 10, as shown in
The clear plastic top member 30 has shape and size the same as or approximate to those of the base 10, and is provided with at least six binding bands 31, namely, a front and a rear binding band 31 located at and extended from a front and a rear edge, respectively, of the top member 30, and two left and two right binding bands 31 located at and extended from a left and a right edge of the top member 30, respectively, corresponding to the front and the rear section at the lower side of the base 10. Please also refer to
To put the handheld device 40 in the receiving space between the clear plastic top member 30 and the base 10, simply release the front binding band 31 of the top member 30 from the base 10, as shown in
Since the top member 30 is made of a clear plastic material, it does not hinder the user from watching any information displayed on a screen 41 provided on the handheld device 40. And, since the carrier 1 is attached to the user's arm 2 using the arm band 20, as shown in
The handheld device 40 might have some jacks or slots, such as headphone jack, microphone jack, memory card slot (not shown), etc., provided thereon for connecting to other peripheral devices. Such jacks or slots are frequently provided at left and right sides, and a rear end of the handheld device 40. The carrier 1 has four substantially open peripheral edges except at the spaced binding bands 31, allowing signal cables to be conveniently connected to the jacks or slots on the handheld device 40 held in the carrier 1. The user needs only to release a suitable one of the binding bands 31 from the base 10 to enable successful insertion or removal of a memory card into or from the memory slot provided on the handheld device 40.
The binding bands 31 may be removably connected to the peripheral edges of the top member 30, so that they are independently adjustable in length. For this purpose, an elongate through slot 34 is formed along each of the front and the rear edge of the top member 30 in parallel with the corresponding edge, and two elongate through slots 35 are formed along each of the left and the right edge of the top member 30 in parallel with the corresponding edge; and each of the binding bands 31 is provided on the back side at a proximal end with a loop fastener surface 33 while the rest area on the back side of the binding band 31 is provided with the hook fastener surface 32. Each of the binding bands 31 is extended through a corresponding elongate through slot 34 or 35 with the loop fastener surface 33 secured to the hook fastener surface on the back side of the binding band 31 to form a loop engaged with the elongate through slot 34 or 35, so that the binding band 31 is connected to the edge of the top member 30. When the handheld device 40 to be held in the carrier 1 has a relatively small thickness, the user may cause the loop fastener surfaces 33 of the binding bands 31 to secure to the hook fastener surfaces 32 to form the loops with an increased size, so that the binding bands 31 connected to the elongate through slots 34, 35 have a shortened final length each to facilitate more convenient securing and releasing of the hook fastener surfaces 32 to and from the loop fastener surfaces 11 at the lower side of the base 10.
The clear plastic top member 30 preferably has a central area with shape and size similar to that of the handheld device 40 held in the carrier 1. As shown in
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In the present invention, the loop fastener surfaces and the hook fastener surface provided on the base 10, the binding bands 31, the arm band 20, and the extension bands 60 are complementary releasable fasteners, such as the hook and loop fasteners sold under the mark of VELCRO®.
In brief, the carrier for handheld device according to the present invention not only allows a user to conveniently carry different types of handheld video device, such as a cellular phone, a PDA, or a GPS receiver, but also allows the user to watch information displayed on the screen of the handheld video device and to operate keys provided on the handheld device without the need of extracting the device from the carrier. Therefore, the carrier for handheld device of the present invention is a humanized design and very convenient for use.
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